High Resolution Regional Climate Modeling: Moving towards Climate Resilient Future
Donald J. Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Donald J. Wuebbles, Chunyong JungMitigation and adaptation to climate change and extreme weather are of national imperative across the United States. The interwoven nature of the food-energy-water system (FEWS) makes it particularly vulnerable to the changing climate as it will have an impact on the economy and society and urban centers also need to adapt to these changes as they support the bulk of the population of the countries. Here we propose to study the impact of changing climate on extreme weather events using a very high-resolution regional climate model runs with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model at 4km horizontal resolution that provides much more accurate analyses of effects of climate change on vulnerable sectors than prior studies. These are significant scientific analyses that will help the country move towards an adaptive and resilient future. The supercomputing facility of Blue Waters provides one of the best platforms for efficient high-resolution computer modeling.